User:Starstriker7/Sacramento Worklist

This worklist concerning the article on the city of Sacramento, California outlines what needs to be done in order to improve the Sacramento article to GA status as observed directly by editors working to improve the article.

Participants edit

--Starstriker7^(Talk) 20:10, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Guidelines to consult edit

Exemplary articles edit

Lead edit

Not done Should be expanded to cover briefly all sections of the article. (?)

History edit

Not done Needs to be truncated to a few paragraphs.
Not done Needs citations.

Note: The history of Sacramento, California article can be used as a guideline up to before the world wars.

Geography and climate edit

Geography edit

Not done Citations needed.

Climate edit

Not done Citations needed per tag.

City neighborhoods edit

Note: If necessary, this section can be broken off and set into a new article should the section become too long.
Not done Change subsection titles for the sake of clarity. (?)

Area one (Central/Eastern) edit

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area two (Southwestern) edit

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area three (Southeastern) edit

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area four (North of the American River) edit

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Demographics edit

Not done Cite or remove (if necessary) paragraph concerning homeless people.

Government and politics edit

Not done Cite end of paragraph.
Not done Expand to cover Sacramento's political history (?)

Education edit

Colleges and universities edit

Not done Cite all uncited paragraphs.
Not done Consolidate loose short paragraphs into lengthier paragraphs
Not done Remove information irrelevant to Sacramento proper.

Public schools edit

Not done Add citations to cover all uncited information.
Not done Reword and expand the section for the sake of clarity.

Private schools edit

Catholic schools edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done Rewrite to reduce the need for parenthesized information.

Independent schools edit

Not done Add citations.

Note: Consider the necessity of this section in the paragraph, and if it could be combined in a summary section at the beginning of the education section.

Other religious schools edit

Not done Add citations.

Note: Consider the necessity of this section in the paragraph, and if it could be combined in a summary section at the beginning of the education section.

Culture and arts edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done Refocus section lead paragraph to summarize information from subsection.

Theatre arts edit

Not done Add citations.

Visual arts edit

Not done Add citations.

Note: If possible, this section should be expanded.

Museums edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done De-peacock.

Music edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done De-peacock.

Sports and recreation edit

Not done Add citations.

Notable residents edit

Not done Add citations.

Note: If possible, this section should be removed and divided amongst the rest of the article.

Transportation edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done De-weasel.
Not done Expand lead to summarize subsections.

Amtrak service edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done Consolidate loose short paragraphs into lengthier paragraphs.

Other transportation options edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done Add caption for the thumbnailed picture on the left.

Media edit

Television edit

Not done Expand into a section with words.

Sacramento newspapers edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done Expand the other listed newspapers from a bare list into a paragraph.

Magazines edit

Not done Add citations.
Not done Expand into a paragraph.

Note: Merging this section with the Sacramento newspapers section should be considered, placing both sections under a common name pertaining to written works.

Radio edit

Not done Expand from a bare list.

References edit

Not done Reformat existing references using {{Cite web}}, {{Cite news}}, and {{Cite book}}.